Page:Third and second part of the new proverbs on the pride of women, or, The vanity of this world displayed.pdf/7

7 3. Go to the birds and be not blindfolded, who build their nest, lay their eggs before they hatch their young, be not so foolish, as to have a child eefore you have a wife, nor a wife before you have a house to hold her in.

4. Stuff thy house with all manner of furniture necessary for the family, marry thy wife in the pudding month, and thou shalt have warmness all the winter.

5. Beware of running too fast, lest you come to fall, for the fair sex have short heels, and often all backwards when hearing of the voice of wedlock, swooning away, for the joy of a relief long looked for; behold them not when they up their ten toes, lest thou fall into the  from whence there is no returning, without  great wickedness,

6. But when thou goest to meet a woman her by the mouth, as Mungo did his mare,  by her words you may know whether she be  wise woman or a fool.

7. If she be poor, proud, and prideful, turn back of your hand to her, and your face to, for she is the worst penny-worth ever into a poor man's pack-sheet, yea, happy that goes home with the loom halter in his without her.